biblioteca (à la acid)

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rio arno, il duomo, those weird few blocks of the city center that don't quite fit in plan. things i remember about firenze (2005) that for some reason have recently resurfaced. 

this is undoubtedly due to a postcard from the Ambrosios that makes its home in the back fold of my sketchbook. 

i imagine the ponte vecchio reaching critical mass, ultimately tumbling into the arno.

tarragona in 12 seconds

...or less.

                                       casey, alisa y alejo_tarragona, cataluña_9 enero 2010.

lo nuevo

                                acrylic, pen, graphite on mat board.   38 x 30 cm.

get my good side

quite a dusty evolution

 Chronicling the expansion/explosion during a relatively short time (1940-now),

an exhibit at the Waqif Art Center gave me a new understanding of the city and

it's formation. It starts  from 0, or a small network of timber/sand structures, and ends with 80 story towers. There appears to be no middle-ground. The coastline is almost entirely dredged and manmade, curving to facilitate a "picturesque" corniche. hmm, not as much care given to infrastructure :(

I think the city is still searching for its identity and a way to cope with its rapid expansion.

satélites

           acrylic, pen, graphite on matboard.   25 x 30 cm.

el lujo no nos falta

                          acrylic, graphite, pen, gel on matboard.   70 x 45 cm.

madrid me mata.

                                      acrylic, graphite, pen on paper.    65 x 43 cm.

...back to school, as not to be a fool.

snapshot memories from my old studio space (by old i mean last term) and the process-driven chaos that inhabited it. 

i've since moved a whopping 6 meters to a new space and will document it soon. 

what i really need is a personal space heater. brrrr.

mix those media.

  

the water tower

a key element in the water tower project was the merging of  illustration/painting and 3-dimensional rendering.

finding a middle-ground is difficult, but together, one compensates for what the other lacks. 

it's difficult to take a dream sequence that you have one night and apply it to an architectural project. difficult but possible!

the water tower

a rediscovered gem. i thought i had lost this stop-motion video that i made for the chicago vertical farm project (fall 2008). 

-made with the aid of illustrator/ps + scanned paintings + laborious task of copying and moving frames to sequence a concrete video.

the birth of a breathing building. given life by the sky and river.

doha, one last time.

the hot and perpetually "en obras" mess that is doha inspired me to look at my own design process. 

a professor once told a classmate and i that we had a flair for the never-ending process. 

is that bad? 

questionably tacky-topped towers amidst dust and fabric.